Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-03-19

will hold my hand | will!' SO the
father held his hand, and led him
straight through the peril. Oh, woman.
in your hour Of anguish whom do you
want with you? Mother. Young man.
in your hour Of trouble who do you
want to console you? Mother. If the
mother of Jesus could only have taken
THOSE FEET
into her lap! If she might have taken
the dying head on her bosom! IL she
might have said to Him: alt will
soon be over, Jesus; it will soon be
over. and we will meet again, and it
will he all we'll" But no.. she dared
not come up so close. They would
have struck her back with their ham,
mers. They would have kicked her
down the hill.
There can be no alienation to all.
Jesus must suffer and Mary must
look. suppose she thought Of the
birth-hour in Bethlehem. | suppose
she thought Of the time when with her
boy in her bosom she fastened on in
the darkness in the flight towards
Egypt. / suppose she thought of His
boyhood, when he was the Joy of her
heart. | suppose she thought of the
thousand kindnesses He had done her,
not forsaking her or forgetting her,
a,--, -, H. LAT 49,, t,rs>x
70 John and saying: There is moth
err; take her with you. She is Old now.
She cannot help herself. Do for her
Just AS | would have done for her if |
had lived. BE very tender and gentle
with her.
BEHOLD II MOTHER!
She thought it all over. and there is no
memory like "A mothers memory, and
there is no woe like a mothers woe.
l remark again: This is a tender
scene because it is n Christian reunion.
Why was it that in the seasonal meet.
ing, when | asked a woman if it were
her son who sat next to her, making
profession Of his faith, she made no
vi Vi put cltCl ~ iLloiiiCuls tlNluS W
control her emotion, she burst into
tears. l said within myself, she need
not tell me the story. 1t is the old
story Of a prodigal got back. The
dead is living again, and the lost is
found" Oh, how many families there
are that rejoice together to-day.
These Christians during the rest OF
the year, perhaps, will no&know much
about each other. You 60 in one
circle of society, these 90 in some other
circle OF society. and this one travels in
that path, and this n the other path;
but to-day we all come on one platform,
and we make one confession, and we
cling to one cross. and we gaze upon
one death anguish, 1t seems to me
this morning not like n church but
like a
GREAT FAMILY CIRCLE,
and we JON hands around the cross of
Christ, and We say: Zone Lord, one
faith, one baptism, one cross, one
Christ, one doxology, one heaven!''
While ! stand here 1t seems to me AS il
this communion table, which Is only
seven or eight feet long and three OF
four feet wide, widens until all the
! Christians of our own denomination
can sit at it; and still the table widens,
until all the Christians in this
land Of all names and demon.
nations come and sit al it
and still the table widens until j,
bridges the sea, and Christians on the
other side of the Atlantic came and sill
at it; and still that table wideus, unit
the redeemed of heaven mingle in the
~communion: Church militant church
triumphant.
Zone army OF the living God
To His command We bow;
Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now"
Again, my friends. this is an absorb.
ing scene because it arouses so many
PRECIOUS MEMORIES.
We look back and remember the days
of our childhood when. long before we
knew the meaning of the bread and
the wine, we sat in the side pews or
Sacramento days, or in the galleries,
and losked as our fathers, mothers,
ant older brothers and sisters
sat ~ the communion. Or, il
we sat with them, we pulled
at mothers dress and said
What does that meanp What is tina,
in the cup? What is that on the
plate?' O, yes; we re mepber those
sacramenial days of our boyhOod. We
remember how much more tende,
father was on that dav than or
any other day. We remember
how mother stood. and without saying
one word looked at us, and her eyes
got full of tears. Oh. the dear old
soul! They have gone! But until the
day of our death we will associate this
holy ordinance with their memory.
And when our work on earth is done
we will just go up and sit down beside
them in the
HEAVENLY CHURCH,
as we used to sit beside them in the
earthly church, and then we will drink
new wine in ~ Fathers kingdom.
.tRehold TIM saints believed of Cod